How to Upgrade Oracle 12c to 19c on a Window Failover Cluster Manager environment

On this post we are going to upgrade Oracle 12c to 19c on an ACTIVE/PASSIVE setup on Windows Failover Cluster Manager: Server Name DBNAME 12c Oracle Home 19c Oracle Home win-rac1 DBPROD C:\oracle\app\product\12.1.0\dbhome_1 C:\oracle\app\product\19c\dbhome_1 win-rac2 DBPROD C:\oracle\app\product\12.1.0\dbhome_1 C:\oracle\app\product\19c\dbhome_1 This is the current patch level of both 12c and 19c homes (on both nodes!): Its worth... » read more

How to AUTOUPGRADE from 12.1.0.2 to 19c

This post will go though the all the steps needed to upgrade a 12.1.0.2 database to a 19c using AUTOUPGRADE. Source DB: 1:- Create 19c directory and copy software: 2:- Create response file for a silent 19c Instalation: 3:- Execute 19c pre-requisites: 4:- Install 19c software in silent mode: 5:- Execute root.sh (as root): 6:-... » read more

How to Upgrade Oracle Grid from 12c to 19c

This post will go though the steps needed to upgrade an Oracle Grid High Availability Services (HAS) from version 12c (12.1.0.2) to 19c (19.13.0) on a Linux environment. 1:- As per document Doc ID 2539751.1, Patch 28553832 is a prerequisite for both GI and DB Upgrade. Here the steps to apply Oct 2021 PSU which... » read more

Oracle 12c: How to apply Oct 21 PSU – 12.1.0.2.211019

This activity is part of a GI upgrade from 12.1.0.2 to 19c, in which we need to apply latest PSU first, so here are the steps: 1:- Patches available here: 2:- (as ROOT) Update OPACH version to latest available. (p6880880_122010_Linux-x86-64.zip) 3:- (as ROOT) Run prepatch script. (RDBMS instances should be stopped first) 4:- GI patching:... » read more